ABSTRACT
Although the potential for corruption is inherent in the capitalist-democracy nexus, yet the role and form of corruption in any given society may vary greatly. Thus, structural conditions (the economic-political nexus) and systemic process (from collusion to corruption) do not produce a uniform result. Instead, corruption may be functional, dysfunctional or offset by normative strengths (or be any combination of these), depending upon factors specific to a particular society. My aim in this chapter is to produce a synthesis of structure and specificity in order to evaluate corruption.
